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If you've figure out how to do something that wasn't clearly documented already, PLEASE continue to improve the relevant wiki API doc pages with tips, snippet examples, and/or links to an examples in the unit test files in the our svn repository - to make things a bit easier for folks going forward!

We're way ahead of you on that one Dave G. 

In my first attempt to use the CiviCRM API (2.0), it appears that there is either missing functionality in api/v2/Relationship.php (no civicrm_relationship_get()), or a conflict between the contacts expected by api/Relationship.php and those returned by api/v2/Contact.php (civicrm_contact_search() or civicrm_contact_get()).

I'm just trying to get a contact with the contact_id, and then get the relationships of that contact. Any guidance/recommendations on what API calls I should use to accomplish this?

Yes it looks like you're right, there is no way to look up a relationship in API v2.  I would suggest filing a bug for this.  You can still call the function directly:
require_once('CRM/Contact/BAO/Relationship.php');
$relationships =&  CRM_Contact_BAO_Relationship::getRelationship($contact_id);


i'm using a function called 'crm_uf_get_profile_groups' which doesn't seem to exist anymore. what replaced this?

I'm working with a drupal module called 'petition' and realized that it uses the civicrm v1 api.  Luckily there is a civicrm20compat module, and using it (and modifying petition appropriately) I was able to get it to partially work.

Then I discovered that the function crm_create_activity_history is not defined, and not 'mapped' in civicrm20compat.  So I applied a patch I found that is meant to fix that situation, by calling something like $history = CRM_Core_BAO_History::create($params, $ids, 'Activity');

Of course, then I get this:

Fatal error: Class 'CRM_Core_BAO_History' not found in /vol/home/organizations/abeedoo.com/platforms/drupal-6.16/sites/ilraiseyourhand.org/modules/civicrm20compat/civicrm20compat.module on line 106

So what to do now?  I didn't find 'CRM_Core_BAO_History' anywhere.

Clifford - The 'activity history' object was obsoleted in 2.0 - all activities are stored in the activity object. I suspect the effort involved in just migrating the API calls in the Petition module to use current v2 api's will be equivalent (or perhaps less) than trying to make the v1 + compat20 approach work - and the end result should be cleaner. We are doing a much better job of maintaining backwards compatibility with the v2 series.

Jump on IRC (#civicrm on freenode.net) to discuss further / if you get stuck.

Thanks for the response.  In this particular case, can you suggest how one might replace the crm_create_activity_history function.  Do you have a code snippet as an example? 

What was that API supposed to do ?

BTW, I'm working on a CiviPetition module, that should be quite groovy

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Well, I definitely be interested in that!  It's sorely lacking in civicrm, IMO.  One of the first things advocacy groups do is put up online petitions.  Is it ready to be testable?  If it needs work, I'd rather put my energy into that than into updating drupal petition to use v2 api.